– ISIS: A global threat?
I suppose it’s no irony; just his many assignments and publications which resulted in Historian David Granger- currently the political Opposition Leader- producing a booklet on a summarized history of Guyana’s (earliest) Newspapers.
The print media preceded radio and all of today’s technological communication characteristic of the present dot-com generation. Granger then outlined how the earliest ‘papers served their respective masters’ interest – from planters to merchants to colonial office; then the African/Indentured masses. Secure a copy, it’s informative reading not exclusive to students of communication.
Perhaps it is within the foregoing context that I recycle a few thoughts on the role of Guyana’s newspapers in today’s society.
